On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:37 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:30:08AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:26 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:07:19AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (Dinosaur that I am, I've always thought that there is too much emphasis > > > > > on quick boots with pretty splash screens, but that's just the old vs. > > > > > the new and all that rot.) > > > > > > > > FWIW, I would support this. As a data point, in my experience people > > > > don't count the bootloader time in deciding if a system 'boots fast' or > > > > not. If they see a fast boot from _after_ the bootloader to desktop, > > > > they consider it to be a fast booting system. > > > > > > > I highly doubt the timeout will be changed. We just need to work harder > > on propagating the information that holding shift will get you the grub > > menu (or even tapping F8 will just like on Windows, it really doesn't > > matter which key you hit (as long as it isn't escape)). > > For what it's worth, testing that this morning, I held down the shift > key after booting and it still just booted with a 0 timeout. So, I'm > not sure that solution is universal. > > (I didn't try tapping other keys, don't ahve a chance right this > moment.) > > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > > Xander: I have my pride. Okay, so I don't have a *lot* of my pride, > but I have enough so that I can't do this. > Odd. Every physical machine and virt machine I've tried it has worked. I suppose if you held it down too early you may have triggered your bios' stuck key loop. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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